Tag Archives: Magento

Jason | 8th July 2014
Magento 1.9 CE Sometimes we want to display a price from field for Magento configurable products, advertising the lowest price for that product. The challenge is that a configurable product is made up of the child products it contains, and we’ll need to check each child product’s price and compare them to get the lowest […]Categories: Magento, PHP, Web DevelopmentTags: Extensions, Magento, Module|Comments

Jason | 15th May 2014
Magento 1.8.1.0 CE, CentOS 6.5 64-bit One of the most important things when developing with Magento is reducing the page load times. Today I’m going to show you a quick and relatively simple tweak to drastically improve catalog performance, especially on category-type pages. Most speed-test services will promote the use of parallelization on your site. […]Categories: Magento, System Admin, Web DevelopmentTags: Linux, Magento|Comments

Jason | 14th February 2014
Magento CE 1.8.1.0 If you’re reading this, you probably know that the default currency exchange rate updater that ships with Magento Community Edition is broken. I was hoping this would have been addressed in 1.8, but alas, no. Anyway, we can hardly complain – they still offer the platform for free!! So, we need to […]Categories: Magento, Web DevelopmentTags: Magento, Module, Scripts|Comments